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Ultimate Lincoln Collection |
Although the items below are being offered on eBay only as a collection, we do have a some individual Lincoln-related items for sale at prices starting as low as $100. Click here for details.
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Lincoln Shrewdly Plots to Stop the Spread of Slavery after the Infamous Dred Scott Case
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Autograph Letter Signed (“A. Lincoln”) to Richard Yates, Springfield, Ill., March 9, 1858. 2 pp. 8 x 10”.
A politically re-energized Lincoln shrewdly plots to stop the spread of slavery after the infamous 1857 Dred Scott case.
Lincoln asks Illinois’s future governor to plant an anonymous endorsement for Congressional candidate James Matheny in local newspapers. Though Matheny was not a Republican, Lincoln explains, “he is with us” in opposing the Dred Scott decision. Broadening the base of the Republican Party, Lincoln argues, is essential to defeating pro-slavery forces.
Item #21945.99, PRICE ON REQUEST
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Lincoln Pushes for Arkansas Without Slavery
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Autograph Letter Signed as President, to Frederick Steele. Washington, D.C., January 27, 1864. 1 p., 7¾ x 9¾ in. On Executive Mansion stationery.
After announcing his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction on December 8, 1863, Lincoln paid close attention to two Arkansas groups both aiming for reunion. Here, the president is concerned about potential conflicts with his plan, but in the end, both plans coincided in the key detail of ending slavery.
Item #22722, PRICE ON REQUEST
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The Most Authenticated Lock of Lincoln’s Hair in Existence
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Ephemera. Hair sample, approximately 50 strands. Washington, D.C., April 15, 1865.
Item #23092, $40,000
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Lincoln Signs to Support Union Soldiers
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Autograph Letter Signed as President, to Lucy Southwick French. Washington, D.C., May 16, 1864. 1 p., 5 x 8 in. On Executive Mansion stationery.
To raise money for Union soldiers, the former Illinois First Lady requests an autograph for the sanitary fair to sell.
Item #22821, $37,500
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Frederick Douglass’s Plural Vision of America
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Autograph Quotation Signed. [Washington, D.C., February 24, 1882]. 1 p., 5 x 8 in. With original envelope addressed to William F. Gable, Reading, Pa., stamped and postmarked Washington, D.C.
The nation’s foremost African American voice articulates his clear view of equality in the United States, quoted from his own 1852 address to a Free Soil meeting.
Item #23038, $35,000
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General Meade’s Controversial Gettysburg Victory Message
GEORGE MEADE,
Broadside, General Orders 68. “Head Quarters Army of the Potomac,” [Gettysburg, Pa.], printed on the field, July 4, 1863. 1 p., 7 x 6 in.
One of a handful of surviving battlefield-issued copies of the Gettysburg victory message that infuriated Lincoln.
Item #22363, $27,500
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Lincoln Pardons an Arsonist to Help His Aging Mother
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Manuscript Document Signed as President, countersigned by William Seward as Secretary of State. Executive Pardon, Washington, D.C., October 12, 1861. 3 pp., 10½ x 16½ in. With embossed paper seal affixed with red wax on verso of signature page; Seal of the United States on signature page.
“Robert Binnix was young and inexperienced at the time when he committed these offenses, and ...was affectionate to his mother and assisted her to maintain his younger brothers and sisters; And ...she can no longer properly provide for without the assistance of her son Robert...I Abraham Lincoln ...have granted and do hereby grant...a full and unconditional pardon.”
Item #51039, PRICE ON REQUEST
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Frederick Douglass’s Tribute to John Brown
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Autograph Quotation Signed, July 6, 1881.
Others saw madness, but Douglass saw the clarity of a martyr’s vision.
Douglass pens a phrase from his “Lecture on John Brown,” delivered at Storer College in Harpers Ferry on Memorial Day, 1881. Among the platform guests was the district attorney who prosecuted Brown.
Item #20742, $20,000
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Lincoln Tells Fellow Lawyer Hezekiah Wead to Get Ready for Trial
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Autograph Letter Signed, to Hezekiah M. Wead. Springfield, Illinois, December 6, 1846. 1 p. Integral address leaf in Lincoln’s hand.
Item #22603, $18,000
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Lincoln Appoints a Minister to the Papal States
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Document Signed as President, appointing Alexander W. Randall as American Minister Resident to Pope Pius IX. Washington, D.C., April 7, 1862. 1 p.
President Lincoln signs his authorization to affix the Seal of the United States to a politically important appointment: American minister to Pope Pius IX. The appointee later served as Postmaster General under Andrew Johnson.
Item #22685, $16,000
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